Top CSUN Lineman To Miss Rest of Year

Pete Silvey, whom Coach Dave Baldwin said was Cal State Northridge’s best defensive lineman in the first three games, will miss the rest of the season with a stress fracture in his right foot.

“It’s a killer blow for us,” Baldwin said. “But that’s the way football is.”

Silvey, a sophomore from Mater Dei High, will undergo surgery next Friday. Silvey said he suffered a previous stress fracture in his foot and re-injured it during practice Wednesday. He and Baldwin learned the severity of the injury after X-rays were taken Thursday.

Silvey, who has already used his redshirt season, had started all three games. The 6-foot-3, 250-pound lineman had five tackles and one sack. Keith Selico, a junior transfer from El Camino College, will replace Silvey in the defensive line rotation.

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Net results: Northridge football fans (whoever they are) can hear Matadors games on the Internet at Go to https://www.audionet.com/schools/csun/. Those who do not have the software must to download RealAudio 2.0.

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Roster openings: Senior offensive lineman Rudy De La Torre, senior linebacker Miguel Cerna and sophomore receiver Del Wills, all seldom-used reserves, left the Northridge football team this week. De La Torre played at Grant High and Valley College and Cerna is a Burbank High graduate.

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Star player out: Moorpark College women’s soccer player Debbie Smith is out for the season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament.

Smith, a sophomore and former Chatsworth High standout, was second-team All-Western State Conference last season.

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Memory lane: As part of the celebration for 50 years of football, Antelope Valley will honor former players at halftime of home games. The ceremony during the game against Rio Hondo on Saturday will feature players from the 1940s and 1950s.